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Yes we still have to pay them NIL money, but it is available. If we pay kids they will stay. Teams are paying out the nose for "sure" things in the transfer market. This is where we can't compete and where we end with players like we have now. Top HSers and JUCOs are getting left in the cold. Take care of them and they will stay. All kids want to get paid, the ones that move up to P6 from our level, want to get off bad teams or want to get more exposure for the pros. Pay them and they won't leave. Look at our terrible teams and we managed to keep our 2-3 best players. Okoro, Collins, Jimerson all easily could have left for more money and better situations. If we can keep guys like that on mediocre and terrible teams we can keep even better guys on good and or great teams.

I would take Enfield, just not a HR hire for me personally. Better hire than Ford. My preferred candidate is Ben McCollum.

His AD is retiring. He doesn't want to go through another one. He doesn't like the pressure and all that comes with it of a BCS school that plays cheap with its basketball program. Wants to return to his Jesuit roots.

We've caught TheOne blowing smoke before. It doesn't matter how much money or how many years he has left. We are dead last in the A10. He's fired. Someone or several people will buy out his contract, and the person who gave him that contract will pay a price for handing it out. In the same vein as I would stop supporting SLU if Ford was retained, I will stop supporting SLU if by giving out a foolishly large contract to a mediocre coach, they had to pay large sums to buy him out and went too cheap on the next coach because of it.

Teams that are making regular NCAAs aren't getting pilfered by bigger programs unless they are very low level, with Davidson type facilities. If we have a good team, we have the facilities, money, a metro market they can use to make more cash. top 150-300 players are the way to go.

We should hire a coach on the way up for once.

Delete your program and smash the motherboard if it doesn't have every team favored by 20 over SLU the rest of the season.

Is DePaul really a Big East team? Their highest finish was 8th in 06-07. Also the only year they were above .500 in the league. They have been in the Big East 19 years. They have finished last 11 times, going on 12. I know SLU is at the bottom but DePaul has had 15 straight seasons like the one we are having. They are institutionally broken. That Head Coaching job is the last job everyone will have (unless DePaul hires you back later). They cannot win under any circumstances.

Fixed

SLU first 7 minutes 7-11 FGs SLU last 16 minutes 9-34 FGs

Loy Chi has only taken uncontested 3s or layups the last 8 minutes.

Medley playing very well.

The drought is on as usual. 0 for last 7.

Besides the Bills Loyola Marymount and UNLV were my favorite teams growing up. My 5 year old had a sports theme day at school a couple weeks, she had on a Gathers youth jersey thst she wore like a dress. Lots of strange looks but a few big thumbs up from parents who know hoop.

Our TO differential has been garbage all season. It wasn't very good last year. We are actually creating slightly more steals this year than last but we are still in the bottom 10% in the country. The difference between last year is our rim protection. We clogged up the middle and made opposing teams take bad shots at the rim and we forced more outside shots. This year we have no rim protection and our block numbers and FG% defense are at the bottom of the NCAA. Anybody who looked at our roster this season could see this. We had a weakness, steals and didn't improve it, and our strength, rim protection is all but completey gone thanks to our roster construction. This isn't some new thing, I've been preaching this since July.

Porter is leaving Oklahoma. He hates it there. A prominent SLU booster has reached out to Porter. He is in the top3 for DePaul too, but still who takes the DePaul job over the SLU job.

Won't need one. Only a 20 hour flight from Australia for Tatum.

Yeah but I think Highmark is better than Jimerson, maybe way better.

Reed isn't playing because of a heart condition but is doing some good things. https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2024/01/05/former-nba-player-willie-reed-tours-northern-alaska-villages/ https://www.adn.com/arctic-sounder/2023/12/05/recent-nba-player-visits-more-northwest-alaska-villages-and-opens-up-about-personal-challenges/ Ezewiro is putting up OK numbers as a 3rd year college player. Reed didn't play his 3rd year. His Sr year he was in the G league averaging 15/8/3. Any comparison is ridiculous. EZ has talent, but c'mon Reed coming back would have been the top center in a deep A10 and a top 10 big man in the country at the same age EZ is now.

Your right. Nevermind the honest evaluation of Yuri's talent. I was hard on him because i'm a racist.

Some posters just aren't smart enough to make a cogent argument so they play the race card. I was hard on Yuri. In retrospect too hard. He walked away from HIS team and HIS city. Then came crawling back. His defense his Sr season took a massive drop. I thought he dominated the ball too much. He played too slow even though we were built to run, so he could run his two man game. I blamed him too much because had to be the alpha dog on that team and he wasn't built for that. His point production just couldn't hold up for that. He needed another star to play off and his final two years he didn't have it. He's a better player than Jimerson though so I expect more but he was a victim of Ford's lack of recruiting and Perkins injury. On the other hand if you are going to dominate the ball as much as Yuri did you can't expect many 1 on 1 players who can get their own shot to want to play with you. You have to score then and Yuri tried and couldn't. Jimerson's shooting has stunk lately. His defense has sank to freshman levels. He is a real weapon on offense though. On almost any other team that we've had I would have begged for him to be the 3rd option. Imagine Jimerson replacing Barnett on the Majerus teams. Jimerson's strengths are playing off ball, vs Yuri's playing on ball so its comparing apples to oranges. Jimerson can't get his own shot, he's never tried to be that guy. If the scheme can't get him looks than he either doesn't take any shots or he takes really bad shots. For Jimerson to be a #1 guy the rest of the team has to buy all in on getting him open. His teammates don't care and his coaches don't either. One of the few things they have in common is lack of postseason play and really high, ultimately useless counting stats. Collins is in the conversation for best Billikens PG. Jimerson is not in the conversation for best Billikens anything.

7 minutes and counting. Getting run off our by a bad Davidson team. I hate to say it but I told you so.

Well over 6 minutes without a FG.

Parker is hot!!! Get him the ball.